Zoning Ordinance

City of Roswell
P.O. Drawer 1838
Roswell, NM 88202-1838
(505) 624-6700
Fax: 624-6709

 

ARTICLE 14:
C-2 COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

Section 1. Purpose
This district is intended to provide for a wide variety of 
retail, personal service, wholesale office, and other 
general service types of uses for the consumer population of 
the entire community and, because of their heavy traffic 
generating characteristics and potentially detrimental 
appearance and performance, are located on the periphery of 
residential areas along collector and arterial street 
facilities.
Section 2.  Use Regulations
a.	Permitted Uses.  In the C-2 district, permitted uses are 
as follows:
	1.	Any use permitted in the C-1 District
	2.	Amusement establishments
	3.	Animal hospitals, clinics, kennels, and pounds
	4.	Antique shops
	5.	Athletic clubs
	6.	Automobile accessory stores
	7.	Automobile and other motor vehicle sales
	8.	Automobile laundries
	9.	Automobile service stations
	10.	Bank and other financial institutions
	11.	Banquet halls
	12.	Bicycle stores; sales, rental, and repair
	13.	Blueprinting and photo-copying establishments
	14.	Book, stationery, and school supply stores
	15.	Building material sales and storage, retail
	16.	Building contractor's office and material storage
	17.	Business, public, and governmental offices
	18.	Camera stores, sales and repair
	19.	Candy and ice cream stores
	20.	Carpet and floor covering stores
	21.	Catering establishments
	22.	Clothing stores
	23.	Clubs and lodges; private, fraternal, religious, but 
not gun clubs
	24.	Convention, exhibition, and civic centers, and 
auditoriums
	25.	Department stores
	26.	Drive-in restaurants
	27.	Electrical and household appliance stores, sales and 
repair
	28.	Employment agencies
	29.	Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets, bakeries, 
and delicatessens
	30.	Funeral parlors
	31.	Furniture stores
	32.	Garden supply and seed stores
	33.	Gift shops
	34.	Golf courses and related buildings
	35.	Hardware stores
	36.	Health centers
	37.	Hobby shops
	38.	Hotels and motels
	39.	Interior decorating stores
	40.	Jewelry stores 
	41.	Libraries
	42.	Liquor stores 
	43.	Locksmiths
	44.	Lumberyards
	45.	Mobile home and travel trailer sales
	46.	Musical instrument stores, sales and repair
	47.	Newspaper offices
	48.	Office supply stores
	49	Outside storage and warehouses incidental and 
subordinate to the principal use of the property
	50.	Paint and wallpaper stores
	51.	Parking lots, as a principal use
	52.	Pawnshops
	53.	Pet stores
	54.	Photography supply, developing, and processing 
stores
	55.	Plumbing shops
	56.	Post offices
	57.	Printing and publishing establishments
	58.	Professional offices
	59.	Public garages
	60.	Public utility and service uses including, but not 
limited to:  electric substations, gas regulator 
stations, telephone exchanges, microwave relay 
towers and stations, antenna towers and other 
outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the 
exchange in the interest of public convenience and 
necessity, commercial radio and television towers, 
sewage treatment plants, well and water pumping 
stations, water filtration plants, water reservoirs, 
and other similar uses
	61.	Radio and television broadcasting stations
	62.	Record stores
	63.	Restaurants, lounges, and liquor establishments
	64.	Self storage establishments
	65.	Shoe stores, sales and repair
	66.	Sign shops
	67.	Sporting goods stores
	68.	Stadiums and arenas
	69.	Theaters, indoor
	70.	Tobacco shops
	71.	Toy stores
	72.	Upholstery stores
	73.	Variety and discount stores
	74.	Any other use that meets the intent and purpose of 
this Article and is similar and comparable to those 
uses listed above.
b.	Special Uses.  In the C-2 district, special uses are as 
follows:
	1.	Any special use in the C-1 District, except those 
listed as a permitted use in the C-2 District
	2.	Airports, heliports, and aircraft landing fields
	3.	Bottling works
	4.	Bus stations and terminals
	5.	Gun clubs
	6.	Outdoor theaters, drive-in
	7.	Outside storage, as a principal use
	8.	Parcel delivery and mail order services, excluding 
motor freight terminals
	9.	Penal, correctional, and other institutions 
necessitating restraint of patients
	10.	Travel trailer parks meeting the standards set forth 
in Article 20
	11.	Welding

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